Meet the Robinson's

We saw Disney's Meet the Robinsons last week. What an INCREDIBLY STUPID movie. I loved it all to pieces. It's not quite the Emperor's New Groove, but it's in that vein. Only with time machines, dinosaurs, and space ships. It's basically a bunch of writers and animators just like me who got to play with Disney's money.

I remember seeing an interview with Steven Spielberg on why 1941 was his first flop. He said that looking back on it, he realized that the only people who would enjoy this movie were the people with exactly the same sense of humor as him, Bob Gale, and Robert Zemeckis. Well this is kind of the same situation. And in both cases, I'm that guy!

Scary Mary

And in today's "That's not RIGHT" category:



Hide your children. Heh.

Happy Birthday Walt!

Walt Disney. Love him or hate him, he still makes George Lucas look like a poser.

That's a lot of humbug...

Good heavens. I saw a slide at the movies that claimed that A Christmas Carol had been made into something like 80 movies in the twentieth century. (Or was it 200? I forget.) Well, over at Jim Hill Media, he's reviewing forty of them!

A Wooden Leg Named Smith!

Good heavens. Did anyone else know about this?

(Don't you just love obscure in-joke subject titles? I could have said "Yes! Well I don't mind that quite so much. At any rate, it's TRADITIONAL." Well, it made ME laugh. And I love to-- never mind.)

p.s. The editors appologize for the flagrant and obviously intentional non-use of Supercalifraglisticexpialidocious in this post. The writer's nose has been given a tweak and he has been told that he is bad.

When Hinges Creek In Doorless Chambers...

It's Halloween! So how about a few Haunted Mansion Links?

DoomBuggies.com is the be all, end all of Haunted Mansion sites. Everything you wanted to know and then some. Lots of pictures, lots of audio. Here's a nice page on the LP, which when I was growing up WAS the Haunted Mansion.

The Wikipedia page. Yikes, there's a buncha stuff here!

Paul "Ghost Host" Frees (again).

Thurl "Grim Grinning Ghosts" Ravenscroft (he's grrrrrrrrrrrreat!).

And here's a nice article from Jim Hill. The precision grave digger drill team is my favorite.

As much as I love Pirates of the Caribbean, if it were my choice Haunted Mansion would have gotten the really cool movie and Pirates would have gotten Eddie Murphy.

Don't forget, tomorrow is All Saints' Day!

Happiest Place on Earth

I just found out that this week's release of The Little Mermaid on DVD includes the unreleased short of The Little Match Girl.

Both are Hans Christian Andersen stories. And neither one has a happy ending. Disney's Little Mermaid? Happy ending. The Steadfast Tin Soldier? Happy ending (although that was more a dictate of the music they chose). Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame (not HCA)? BIIIG happy ending! The Little Match Girl? Heh heh heh. No such luck. It's nice to see they managed it at least once.

I look forward to seeing it.